Based on Anime Charlotte, with changes to story and Ayumis power

 

Saturday

Yu Otosaka just had to transfer schools and moved to a new place together with his little sister, Ayumi Otosaka. He had some sort of superpower he used for his own good: To warp his mind into another person for 5 seconds. Mainly he used it to cheat on tests and to get a girlfriend. Now other people with similar imperfect powers got to know about this power and because of the danger these powers are, they want him to help finding more people to erase their power.

After coming home from another tiresome day at school, Yu was greeted cheerily by his sister with a cooked meal.

“Big brother Yu! Today I made some curry!”, Ayumi said, pushing her face into the window.
“Oh wow! Thank you!”, Yu said with a fake smile.
It’s bright red… she used the sweet tomato sauce again… ugh, I hate this sweet taste so much, can’t she just make something normal for once?!
“Do you like it? I used the special family recipe and… *cough*”
“Yeah, I… really love it. But…. are you getting sick!”
“Nah, I’ve only coughed, why would that… *cough cough*” Ayumi started.
Yu then tapped her forehead
“It seems a little bit warm, wait a moment”, Yu said and started searching some of the still packed cardboards for a thermometer. After pulling one out, he started measuring if she had fever.
“Hm, slight fever, you stay in bed. Good for you it’s Sunday tomorrow, so you’ll stay in bed all day.”
“But…”
“No ‘but’!”

After eating something, he tucked her in bed.
“Thank you, big broth…*cough*”
“You’ll feel better tomorrow, I’m sure of it.”, he smiled, but suddenly, his vision faded.

Yu saw himself, standing above him and sinking with his face onto the bed, he was leaning above. What happened?! Why am I? I’m inside Ayumi, but I didn’t do that!
He tried to control her body and move a bit but found out quickly and something else didn’t feel right as well.
5 seconds passed already, and I feel so warm all of a sudden… Is Big Brother right, am I really that sick? Wait, wha…
Then after roughly 10 seconds, everything faded back to black and he made a muffled scream into the blanket and sat up.
“What’s wrong big brother?!”, he heard his sister say.
“I… uh… nothing!”, he smiled awkwardly.
“You just broke down onto me and… and it felt like I could… look into your mind”
“That’s just because… wait a moment? What?”
“It was like… I could see what you did today. You were out looking for some special person.”
Is… is this another of those powers? Can she read peoples memories?!
“Forget about that for now, sometimes people imagine the weirdest things, when they feel sick.”
“Okay…”, Ayumi said and closed her eyes “Good night, big brother Yu.”
“Good night”, Yu said and left the room.

I still feel weird somehow… I should definitely talk to Tomori tomorrow…

 

Sunday

Yu woke up really early in the morning and even though he wanted to talk to Tomori, he started doing the laundry, normally this was something Ayumi would do, but with her being sick, someone else had to.
When he was done, he took a fresh set of clothes from the clothes rack and walked into the bathroom and started washing up.
Oh, I should make some breakfast too, he thought stepping out of the shower.

 

He then looked on the clothes.
Something doesn’t feel right.
But he shrugged that thought of und put on some plain boxers. For his upper body, he chose an orange long-sleeved shirt and a blue denim jacket. The black ¾ pants were surprisingly tight and the white socks with a ruffled trim felt weird too… still, he shrugged that off too.
Why does this feel so strange all of a sudden… I wore this, when we moved…

He then started to make some rice omelet. Happy with the result, he finished it up with a written “Get better soon! ♥” made out of the special Otonashi pizza sauce for his sister. For himself, he wrote “Have a great day! ♥”.
Looking at the two meals, he smiled, but his smile faded away really quickly.

Why did I just use that sauce?! I’m really absent-minded this morning.

Nevertheless he knocked on the door of his sister.
“Ayumi, I’ve made some breakfast. Are you feeling better?”, he said, while opening the door.

Ayumi yawned and slowly sat up.
“Wow, you really made some breakf…”, she started and looked at her brother.
She didn’t really understand why, but he was wearing an outfit of hers. It was oversized boyish clothing she sometimes likes to wear, but it were still here clothes.
“Why… are you wearing that?”, she asked.
Yu looked down on himself, then at Ayumi again.
“Dunno, just felt like it I guess…” he said, wondering about her question.
Ayumi was at a loss, why would her brother just suddenly feel like wearing her clothes?
“But… but these are my… *cough* *cough*”, she started, but then started coughing really strong.
“Well, you’re still sick, I will bring some rice omelet to your bed, you can eat it here.”
“Big brother, wa… *cough*”, she brought out between coughing, but he went out of the room.

A few minutes later, he came back with a plate with a rice omelet on it. She wanted to ask again because of his choice of fashion but her train of thought just stopped when she looked at the omelet. “Get better soon! ♥”
She was really moved by this and when she took the first bite, she was greeted with the usual sweet taste.
“Wow! Just the same as mine”, she said amazed.
“Maybe I’m just so used to the taste, I couldn’t make it any different.”
“You’re just the sweetest big brother!”

“Ehehe…”, he said, scratching his nose.
Looking at him, Ayumi was still weirded out because of his clothes, but she thought she could just let it pass, as he was so nice that day.
“I’m going to call Tomori to come over today, I hope that’s okay.”
“Oh big brother! Might she be your… your…”, Ayumi said, with her head turning bright red.
“No, definitely not!”, he answered somewhat angry.

“Hey, Tomori… could you come over? I might have a problem here.”
“Why are you calling me on a Sunday… no, I don’t want to spend time with you…”
“Ayumi might have developed her powers.”
“Oh!... That’s a different matter, coming over in a few minutes.”, she said and hung up.
Wow… I couldn’t even explain anything…

The doorbell rung and Yu walked up to the door and greeted Tomori, standing behind it wearing a pink top with a cute bow on it and a ruffled white skirt.
“Is… this a joke”, she asked looking down on Yu.
“What? Why?”, he asked.
Tomori looked at him confused. He was wearing somewhat tight and girly pants and really girly white socks. And she couldn’t really put a finger on it why she thought that, but the denim jacket seemed more fitting for a smaller girl. She thought back if she saw someone wearing something similar some time ago. But after thinking a few seconds, she brushed it of.
“Well… nothing. I don’t really care about your life choices…”, she said and went in.
Wow she seems in a bad mood today…
Tomori sat down on his table and looked at him again.
“So your sister has developed powers? What kind of powers”
“I… I think it is some sort of memory reading ability.”
“You think so? How would you even know something like that?”
“I found myself in her body yesterday, but I couldn’t move or do anything and was stuck in there for around 10 seconds. And she told me, she could somehow see, what I did that day”
“Hm… we might as well test it out.” Tomori said, stood up and walked up to Ayumis room.
“Wait! She is sick right now, you can’t see her.”
“These powers always come with some sort of illness, nothing to worry about.”

“Hey Ayumi! I heard you feel really bad”, Tomori said with a sudden smile, sitting down in front of Ayumi.
“It’s not that bad! Big brother is just overly worried…”, Ayumi said with a pout.
“Better be save than sorry!”, he said, sitting down next to Tomori.
“This might come sudden, but I want to come out to you straight. We have special powers… you remember me turning invisible? It’s something like that.”
“What, this was no trick?!”, she said with glowing eyes, “Big brother too?!”
“Yes, he too… seemingly even you.”
“Meeee?! What kind of power?! Can I fly?!”, she asked amazed.
“Do you remember yesterday, when you said you could see my memories… I think it might be something like that.”, Yu said
“Really? That’s less fun than I thought…”
“Do you think, you can try it one more time?”, Tomori asked.
“I don’t exactly know how to do it.”
“Hmmm… try concentrating on your brother here and try to read his thought”
“Wait, why me again?!”, Yu asked frustrated.
“She knows you already, so nothing wrong with it, right?”
“… Fine…”, he said reluctantly.
“Okay… then… Memory reading gooooooooo~”, she screamed, with her arms stretched out.

“Aaaaand?”, Tomori asked.
“Hm, I don’t think it worked.”, Ayumi said.
“Try concentrating, it doesn’t really need some sort of name spoken out.”
“I-I try!”, Ayumi said and started staring at her brother.
“Do you really think this will…”, Yu started, and then everything faded to black for him.

When he could see again, he saw his body falling onto the shoulder of Tomori.
“Whow, stop it there...”, she said, trying to push the head away and then holding his body in a sitting position, “But it seems to have worked.”

It really is the same as last time, I’m stuck and can’t do anything.

“Ayumi? Can you do anything?”, Tomori asked, but Ayumi just looked at her with a blank expression.

So it’s dangerous for both sides. But my body just collapsed, like with my ability. At least Tomori is holding it and they look so cute like that, too! I really know it, they are made for each other, but it seems like it’s up to me to help them.

Then Yu blinked and was back to his body.
“Wow! This felt really weird, I saw you doing the chores today big brother!”, Ayumi smiled.
“Y-you did? Well, yes, I did that.”, Yu said speaking in a weird tone.

Did I really just think about myself as if I was Ayu? This is so weird, everything seems so foggy.

Hmm… Okay, so you really have your powers… we might have to work something out tomorrow at school. This power could be useful if we want to find more people“
„Yes, we should speak with the others“, Yu said and Yusa came to his mind.
So I’m going to see Yusarin again! I wish she would go to my school… wait… she is! How could I forget that! I’m so happy!!
“Stop grinning like that…”, Tomori said and snapped Yu out of his trance.
“Oh, yes sorry… You want to stay over for dinner?”, he asked without knowing why.
“No, I want to visit my brother… we’ll talk more about this tomorrow.”
“Oh, okay!”, Yu said and brought her to the door.
“So, um… bye”, Tomori said, stepping out of the apartment.
“Bye!”, Yu said cheerfully and waved in a girlish manner.
“Weirdo”, Tomori said and walked away.

Until evening, Yu continued cleaning the house and doing other chores. This time he was wearing a pale yellow apron over his clothes that had ruffles on its lower trim and was bound to a cute orange bow.

“Dinner is ready!”, Yu said, looking proudly at his pot of red cream stew.
“Wow, this looks just like I do it!”, Ayumi said.
“Well it is the Otonashi style of cooking, so of course we do!”, Yu said cheerfully.
“Yes, and I’m feeling so much better already, so I can go to school tomorrow!”
“No way, you stay at home at least for tomorrow. Just to be sure”
“No fair!”, Ayumi said with a pout!
“Well, we’re most likely all coming here after school”, he smiled.
“Even Yusarin?!”
“I really really hope so!”, Yu said, holding his cheeks.

 

Monday

Yu again woke up really early and had enough time, to do the laundry before school. He took the clean school uniform hanging there and started washing up.

It didn’t even occur to him, that he started to comb his hair in front of the mirror. After he was satisfied and put some hair clips into his hair, he started putting on some panties and put on a white blouse that was really tight.
Have I suddenly grown?
But he managed to button it all the way up and pulled a blue pinafore dress over and then a matching blue jacket, also tight. After that, he put on dark blue knee socks, that didn’t even went up to his knees. As if he had done this really often, he tied a cute red bow around his neck.

Now that he was ready, he still had to get some breakfast done and made the usual sweet omelet and packed his in a cute box.
After putting on some shoes, and had problems doing so. After a long battle, he did it and his feet still seemed to burst out of the shoes.  When he checked himself one last time, he suddenly saw his mistake.

Oh no! I put on Ayu’s uniform… how did I not notice, I’m at a completely different school. No wonder it felt so tight!

He walked back to the bathroom and changed into his real school uniform. When he looked back at his sister’s school uniform, he could only wonder.

It’s so weird, this uniform doesn’t feel right. Is this really the one I wore last week. I clearly remember putting on that cute blue uniform every day… My mind must be playing tricks on me…

With that thought, he left the house and went to school.

 

 

 

 

 

 

“It’s really cute, what you did with your hair”, Yusa said.
“Thank you thank you thank you!”, Yu said, honored by a compliment of Yusarin.
“Isn’t it a bit girly?”, Tomori asked.
“No, boys can do something like that too, and he has really long bangs.”